TUSCALOOSA — Mired in the team’s longest losing streak under his tenure, third-year Alabama head coach Avery Johnson reminded malcontent fans all is not lost.

“Our season is not over,” Johnson said Tuesday, enunciating every word slowly.

Responding to repeated questions about what went wrong during Tuesday night’s embarrassing 21-point home loss to visiting Florida, including a 14 ½-minute shooting drought in the first half, Johnson made it clear there’s still time to turn things around entering Saturday’s regular-season finale at Texas A&M.

“We’ve talked all year long about putting a nonconference schedule together with the SEC schedule to build a resume,” Johnson added. “Now I know these last two losses at home has hurt the resume, but the world’s not coming to an end for Alabama basketball. We still have games to play.”

Following a scheduled day off Wednesday, the Crimson Tide (17-13, 8-9 SEC) heads to College Station, Texas, ahead of Saturday’s 1 p.m. tip against the A&M.

After that, Alabama will have at least one game in the upcoming SEC Tournament from St. Louis, which begins Wednesday, with the NCAA Tournament bid still a legitimate possibility after that.

Despite the late-season swoon, the Crimson Tide are currently slotted as the eighth seed and should still have a first-day bye as a top-10 seed in next week’s conference tournament. From there, though, things get cloudy.

CBSSports.com’s Jerry Palm moved Alabama completely out of the field in his latest NCAA Tournament field projection released Wednesday, representing one of his First Four Out. Meanwhile, ESPN’s Joe Lunardi slotted the Tide as a 10th seed in the Midwest bracket, where it is projected to play seventh-seeded Miami in Detroit.

“We’ve got to look in the mirror. We have more than enough to be successful, OK? And there’s a formula,” Johnson said. “We’ve talked about, OK, if we fall short a little bit of our expectations, is (our resume) going to be enough? So we have another game to play, and after that game you go to the SEC Tournament.

"We had a team last year that we beat in the SEC Tournament in the second round, and they ended up going to the Final Four.”

Last season, Alabama knocked off South Carolina in the second round of the SEC Tournament prior to the Gamecocks rolling off four straight NCAA Tournament wins and advancing to the Final Four, where it lost to national runner-up Gonzaga.

Still, this year’s end-of-season funk has reached some disappointing levels, with the 73-52 loss to the Gators — a team Alabama beat by 18 in Gainesville, Florida, in early February — just the latest, especially after an embarrassing 14 ½-minute shooting drought in the first half Tuesday.

“(The SEC) is a monster league, (and) Alabama is a really good team, they’re an NCAA Tournament team that came to Gainesville and beat us by 18 points,” third-year Florida head coach Mike White said of Alabama. “Every team in this league has had its ups and its downs this year.”

The last time the Crimson Tide suffered through a four-game losing streak was in early February 2014. Meanwhile, it’s last five-game skid came a full decade earlier in the middle of SEC play during the 2004 season.

Johnson has pointed to this year’s overall lack of experience and deficit of any available seniors — Alabama ranks 347th out of 351 NCAA teams in terms of experience according to KenPom.com, averaging 0.81 years of experience per player — with much of its on-court issues this season.

“A lot of these kids haven’t been through this,” Johnson said. “We’re trying to build our resume so we can eventually make it to the tournament and try to have a chance to get some (of the same) experiences some of these other teams like Arkansas and Florida has. We’re not there yet.

"I just think for us, even as disappointed as we are, dejected as we are, you’ve got to pick yourselves back up and go back to work. … We’ve just got to give ourselves a chance to win.”

Despite the recent struggles and the general inconsistency Alabama has dealt with all season long, Johnson has repeatedly put the onus on himself when questioned by media. Though, in recent weeks, Johnson has also made it clear his players need to “grow up” and show maturity in times like this.

“I’m not throwing a chair, I’m not punching a hole in the wall. OK?” Johnson said. “I’m going to get in front of the video at some point and figure out what’s wrong with our team. But there’s been other teams that have survived four-game losing streaks. So to answer your question, the season is not over, we have a lot of season left. We just have to figure how to put the pieces together and that’s my job.”